Drafting poems

Abstract

Drafting Poems: Inverted Potentialities challenges preconceived notions of intelligence, creativity, and authorship. In Drafting Poems, an artificially intelligent poet reacts to user stimuli creating meaningful verse. As users sketch on the surface of a glass drafting-table, the system gathers statistics on how the users are drawing. These statistics inform a probabilistic text generation system that creates original poetry. While this work builds on a rich tradition of algorithmic poetry, its focus on the creation of meaning represents a fundamentally different expressive goal and hence Drafting Poems signifies a new movement, the AI Aesthetic.

Empowering Expression for Users with Aphasia through Constrained Creativity

“…Other tools take an interactive approach, forming the poem from live input. For example, Pereira and Maciel [37] investigate the efects of users interacting with generative literature, Mendelowitz [31] explores an algorithmic approach to a user generating poetry from sketch-based input and Marshall [30] uses the input of running intensity to alter the efects in a read poem. Such poem generating tools sit on a continuum where there is a tension between the work done by the user and the work done by the machine.…”